In life, we make decisions every second of the day, some minor and others that impact our lives, most of the time without sticking account of how we made these judgments. Orwell elaborates his conflict using personal experience and Tavris's use of historical experience helped illustrate both sides of the conflict. One being from the “actor’s” point of view, while the other is that of the audience. Through Pinker's moral ideology, we are also able to understand why people make certain decisions in life. All of this explains why Orwell makes the decision to shoot the innocent elephant at the end. Now, with all this information, we are able to realize how sometimes we make the decision we do. One thing we should take away from this is that we always make the choice to improve ourselves and neglect pleasing others, because it can not only harm us, but sometimes also those around us.